Using your X-Drivefrom Campus Computers

(except School of Business)

Gerald BergtromLearning Technology CenterUniversity of Wisconsin – MilwaukeeOctober, 2005

Edited by Tanya Joosten, Alan Aycock, Susan Gifford

The X-Drive

When you log on to a classroom computer, you are in your X-Drive. TurningPoint stores Participant Lists and Session files in the My Documents folder on your X-Drive, where you can also copy and store other files.

Because you can access your X-Drive space from an office or home computer, we recommend that you copy your TurningPoint files to the X-Drive and present them from there. It is more efficient than using a flash drive to transfer presentation or other files! For faculty using SBA classrooms, contact the School of Business Administration

for instructions on use of G-Drive space for the same purposes.

I. How to access your X-Drive from your office computer.

Right-click on My Computer.

Left-click on Map Network Drive.

Then, in the Folder box, type \\alpha_\username\ address (with the back-slashes), where the underline is usually the first letter of your username, as in the example shown. Then click Finish.

Select X: in the Drive box.

An Attempting to Connect to… window appears, and then a Connect to… window. Enter your alpha password to log in to your X-Drive space.

When you are returned to your desktop, double-click My Computer. Your X-Drive is ‘on Samba…’. Double click on this drive to see the contents…

Among the folders already on your X-Drive is the TurningPoint folder, which contains Participants and Session folders for Participant Lists and Session data files. You may also copy TurningPoint presentation files to this drive for later presentation.

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